good morning everyone the day has finally come for us to leave Delhi today we're headed
over to Agra which is the city where the Taj Mahal is in and to get there we're going to
take our first ever train here in India we're pretty nervous because the trains here are
pretty notorious for being a little rough around the edges but we're also really excited
to check it out for ourselves finally so we are saying goodbye to our tiny little apartment
here in Delhi and we are off to the train station
thank you bye bye
alright we made it without too much hassle
turns out there's there's TVs to tell us if our train's coming at present it says our
train is still on time but the three that are like updated are all late so I don't have
High Hopes alrighty not too bad it's busy but you know it's India nothing really different
than where we have been over the past few days to be honest I'm quite surprised that
we have TVs here in the first place to show us where to go so in like two seconds we already
knew what platform to be on I think it's a win yeah I agree
I'm pretty sure we go this way
wow this is big there are so many train tracks here this is a giant station I think what's
really handy and what we've been finding in India so far is that there's a lot of English
signage so it's not really that hard to get lost not hard to get lost?
it's hard to get lost
I think that's the train is it here this early so I feel like that was a little bit too easy
because I think this is our train already although it's like 30 minutes early so we're
just gonna double check with somebody that this is in fact the right train because we
see people boarding and if this is the right train and we can board now then that'd be
excellent
okay next coach this is the right train this felt way too simple I was promised headaches
and unfortunate circumstances and delays and not fun but this is great
welcome aboard
all right so these seats are actually a little fancier than we would have normally
done but we've only booked these a couple of days ago and there just wasn't a lot of
option left so we're in the like executive class there's like the chair seats they're
not like the sleepers the lie downs I'll give you a little seat tour so in front of me I
have a table with two little pockets for your drink which I don't think are actually going
to help it to not fall out but they're there a drink colder that's for a water bottle we
have feet stool holders feet holders which are actually really nice oh and they go up
a little oh and down oops
okay I've broken mine that's good there's a ton of legroom look at me okay I'm only
like five three five four but seriously look that's amazing obviously a window with a shade
and you can see the humidity build up the temperature in here is super nice definitely
air conditioned and we have really comfy chairs we each have two armrests space for our luggage
of course we put our backpacks above us do these work wow I did not think those were
gonna work it blinded me oh and look at this an outlet one last thing I forgot to show
you a net for all your goodies for all your snacks Mico always makes fun of me because
I love my snacks um also when we booked this ticket you have the like option to include
food in your ticket we opted out so we will not be getting food on this journey it's only
an hour and a half we don't need a meal um but it is an option to get your food provided
to you on the train I mean Nicole says we don't need a meal but that's only because
she packed like enough snacks for four people that's not true I will show you my snacks
I did not over pack snacks today thank you very much yes snack tour it's a very quick
snack tour this is a chocolate almond protein granola bar wait wait wait wait wait and another
yogurt and berry and antioxidant granola bar this is all my snack don't make fun of me
I held back I have reservation sometime not reservation restraint I have I have restraint
sometimes I think I found something else look at that they recline this is fancy oh man
if only I hadn't broke my foot stool
these are actually really comfy seats I mean they are like the top tier for this train
um so you kind of have to expect that some level of comfort uh but so far I'm really
impressed I'm so impressed also you guys want to see my snacks there we go I got
coffee mate Nicole and I love her coffee we love usually putting creamer in it but since
it's hard to find creamer we just put like this coffee mate and um we didn't know when
we'll be able to get a hold of coffee made again yeah we found it in Delhi and we're
like when is the next time we're gonna find coffee mates so we got the biggest pack and
like filled it to the brim with some more that we had lying around so this is my snack
yeah ew that's not true he has granola bars I bought him granola bars too
Mico's making fun of me for eating already the train hasn't even left the station I'm
a hungry lady
we are already diving into snack one of two you'd think I didn't have breakfast but I
had breakfast and coffee
just like that we're off it's was on time it left on time it's so impressed
okay we got a free water and a cup that's pretty cool and Nicole's already reading her
paper very seasoned train goer there
food came but I swear we're not supposed to get food I like swear we opted out of food
I do not think I will eat it yet in case it will be taken away from me thank you so much
all right he took our food which is kind of sad because it actually looked pretty good
so it's an extra 250 rupees for a meal like that on the train each person I think I'll
stick with my snacks especially because it's only like an hour and a half or an hour and
40 minute ride I don't know man we're moving fast you know this train is actually moving
like really fast I thought it was going to be like a chugga chugga choo choo kind of
train and just like Mosey its way along India but uh it's actually more like bullet train
speed probably not bullet train speed we have to be going more than 100 kilometers an hour
right now we're moving fast it's almost like bullet train speed in a non-bullet train yeah
it's pretty good and in case you're wondering how to book a train in India it's actually
pretty simple we just did it all online you go to the website IRCTC that's like their
official Indian railways website from there you first have to register if you've never
done this before you register online you get like a user ID and then after you get your
user ID you can then start making bookings on their booking system you don't need a user
ID to see train availability but you're going to need that if you want to make any bookings
although this website is where you use to register we didn't actually book our trip
there just because we were having troubles with their credit cards and like paying for
the train that we were looking at online so we went to this website called ease my trip
and that was a lot better at being able to accept our credit cards oh and one more thing
before I forget our tickets from Delhi to Agra one way was 2500 rupees for the two of
us in the first class or like executive class top tier of this train for what you get a
very comfortable ride and a quick ride to Agra where Taj Mahal is I think it's actually
really really good price
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we have successfully made it into the washroom so let's look around what do we have we have
look at that a western style toilet a spot for seat covers unfortunately it's empty a
window that's actually pretty nice
sink with running water and look at this toilet paper little soap the mirror there's a light
and it works and there's hooks if you bring your bags in and of course a door lock it's
a small space but not bad I can't believe this we're like almost there this
has just felt so fast and it's been a really smooth Journey really nice Journey the only
trouble is we don't know how to disembark I haven't seen other people disembark I don't
know if like the train keeps going like we think this is just gonna be a stop and the
Train's gonna keep going so we think we like have to just like book it off the train in
time that we don't get stuck on here until the next station we'll be fine
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tada we're here that was a well timed little sound welcome to Agra now we're gonna see
if we can find a way out of this train station grab a taxi yeah and hopefully check into
a hotel
it sounds like we're playing a video game
looking for taxi?
ah yes let the taxi hustlers begin ah we hate getting out of a bus station or a train station
because usually you are just swarmed by people normally what we try to do is get an Uber
nearby or like leave the station a little bit and then see if we e can get a taxi because
usually the rates outside of the station are much better than inside can you guys see how
many people are following me nicole's been, already been spoken to
one two three this is really the tough part when you get out of like a station you get
swarmed and you can't really think it's like really hard to like think about what to do
next or where to go and navigate and like try not to get hit but it looks like Nicole
found an Uber and uh it looks like we just have to get picked up from outside the station
the prices are like can be like quite different from a from a local like double or triple
so that's why we usually do an Uber because you're just like less likely to get overcharged
I must say this could be very overwhelming if you're not used to it but we've got a little
bit more accustomed to this
all right okay so we originally tried to take an Uber because uh usually it's a little bit
easier but the Uber was 150 and then these guys in the tuktuks were offering it for 100.
so while we were like walking through a ton of traffic trying to find our Uber which turned
into this tuktuk I swear we saw this man like he looked like he was in like police uniform
or military uniform I think police and he had like a really pointy like thick thick
like almost like a needle like a screwdriver yeah like kind of like a screwdriver and he
punctured one of the like back tires of one of the tutktuks I like heard the air hiss
out of this tire like I don't know why is it but like that tuktuk's not allowed to be running or
they weren't listening to him I have no idea but it was very strange just like all of a
sudden he was like puncturing this guy's tire
I thought that like after we leave the train station like we can get some peace and calm
on the ride to our hotel nope nope you don't get any of that here
We made it I don't know if you guys heard that but uh he's definitely trying to get us to
go to a different hotel which we've heard is like a super common scam unfortunately
here some people tell you your hotel is closed or that it doesn't exist anymore um and so
they'll take you to different ones he was trying to ask how much are we are paying per
night your room how much you budget?
oh I'm not sure it's okay we do want to stay there oh and then like there are better ones
there are newer ones there are closer ones this one's on a noisy Street what's that very
noisy road yeah everything is not comfortable all sorts of things to make us go somewhere
else so we just kept saying like oh that's interesting no we're fine over and over and
over again
um I think we're gonna leave you guys here yeah yeah we got work to do editing so you
guys can watch some more videos thanks so much for watching our very first video on
the very first Indian train ride first of many I think while we're here yeah I think
first of many I mean especially if they're like that that was a treat in the next video
we will be exploring the beautiful Taj Mahal and we cannot wait to take you guys along
catch you guys in the next one thanks for watching